those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … the campaign came into effect in different provincial administrative divisions of mainland China, between individuals with …

Chinese anti-corruption campaigns executed by CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) put politicians under …

that firms linked to members of China's supreme political elites — the Politburo — obtained a price discount ranging from … promoted to positions of national leadership. To curb corruption, President Xi Jinping stepped up investigations and … reduction in corruption of between 50.1% and 43.6% in the provinces either targeted by the central inspection teams or whose …

China, where a quarter of firms' R&D expenditures come from government subsidies. Using a difference-in-differences approach … subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …

China, where a quarter of firms' R&D expenditures come from government subsidies. Using a difference-in-differences approach …, we find that the anti-corruption campaign that began in 2012 and the departures of local government officials responsible … subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these …

a country. I collect close to 40,000 articles from Chinese newspapers about officials caught during Xi Jinping's anti-corruption … newspapers underreport corruption scandals involving high-level officials from their own province compared to officials from … well connected. When newspapers do report high-level corruption at home, they deemphasise these stories, by making them …

2016. It has been argued, however, that introduced in China in 1997, these policies did not help against corruption. We map …Fostering whistleblowing through leniency and asymmetric sanctions is regarded as a potentially powerful anti-corruption … the evolution of the Chinese anti-corruption legislation and aggregate enforcement data, documenting a large and stable …

In this paper, I study how anti-corruption shocks affect Chinese city leaders through political factions or social … investigated for corruption affects the city leaders' economic performances and policy outcomes. I find that college and workplace … evidence supports the explanation that the corruption investigation of officials initiates promotion competition inside the …

investigations in China as exogenous shocks to conduct difference-in-differences estimation, and find that the country's anti-corruption …This paper investigates the causal effect of corruption on entrepreneurship. We use staggered anti-corruption … anti-corruption campaign: reduced rent seeking, improved government quality, technology spillover from innovation, and the …